Has not been said yet, I do not think. In the F# world you may be looking at: MSBuild FAKE IntelliFactory.Build I am not going to do a detailed pro/con analysis of these just yet, but note that every one of them is currently missing abstractions relevant for this problem domain - building. A build system should allow you to do at least what veritable Makefile does - optimal rebuilds, but at an abstract level, as a library. The best system I have seen so far that gives you these abstractions is Sh[...]